Pippa Wells

Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?

We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).

More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808

In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.

This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This only happens to you once

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version

Absolutely insane and brilliant

youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

Will I be able to order it from amazon.fr? (That's where I have to buy my kindle books. Can't see it there at the moment...)

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

What are the best books on the history of the internet? Particularly the early days in the 80s and 90s?

#HelloSteph does #HelloKitty at @cern.bsky.social for #InternationalCatDay 😻

Iconic particle accelerator-themed merch #niche

#ILC #InternationalLinearCollider #UKatCERN

If you must dream, dream big.

Tories: The End of an Error – Byline Times Shop Tories: The End of Error is the final – please God, let it be final – volume in the satirical trilogy that has catalogued every fib and fatuity of fourteen years of Tory rule. Russell Jones offers us ...

It's been a hellish journey (read thread if you care), but my book Tories: The End of an Error is coming out at the end of August - it's been sent off to print.

You can pre-order here subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...

And here's an excerpt

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

So not enough inflatable crocodiles to help you across?

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Finch propped on an owls head

Photo: Gavin Mccue

Happy 50th anniversary @nikhef.bsky.social and here’s to another 50 years of collaboration in #ParticlePhysics. 🎂

Explore Nikhef’s rich history in the timeline. #nikhef50

Bird with small fish in beak

That week felt like a month!! On behalf of Heard Island, Happy Father’s Day to those brave souls sitting on eggs, sharing krill, or telling lousy jokes!

Photo: Peter Brannon

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

This is amazing 🤯🤯

The Magic of Beavers

Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians

YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)

STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.

Sculpture of Milos of Croton in the Dutch Garden, Holland Park. Viewed from behind we cannot see what he is struggling with.

Sculpture of Milos of Croton in the Dutch Garden, Holland Park. With the photo cropped tight on his head and torso, he appears to be struggling with his drapery.

Man Struggling to Change the Cover of a King Size Duvet. Bronze, 19th century.

76 new particles have been discovered at the LHC so far: the Higgs boson, 52 conventional hadrons and a bestiary of 23 exotic hadrons whose structure cannot reliably be explained or their existence predicted.

If you're sketchy about the 23...

cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary... @koppenburg.ch

I'm honoured to be asked to join the House of Lords. I’m grateful to the Prime Minister for giving me this opportunity to serve the country and support the Labour government he leads to transform the UK.

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#cephalocon last day starting at CERN

Can LinkedIn please stop sending me the PhD position I have open as a job opportunity 😄
"Your skills seem to match this job"
I would hope so! I'm supervising it 🤦🏼‍♀️

Our feature in the #CERNCourier is out: Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far.

https://cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary-of-exotic-hadrons/

GSHC v LHC

#CHL #AllezLesAigles